Hi,

I'm using backuppc to backup a number of different machines, but am
having some memory consumption issues with the backuppc daemon when
backing up one particular host we just started backing up using
BackupPC 3.0.0.

When backing up this client, the daemon uses over 4GB of RAM causing
the machine to swap significantly. The client is a CentOS 4 box and is
being backed up using rsync over ssh. Interestingly, the full backup
seemed to use a lot less memory than the incrementals as the machine
didn't go into swap when doing the full backup.

I am pretty sure that the main issue causing the memory utilization is
that the client has over 1.8 million files to be backed up with
another 20k files to back up each day. Perhaps the File::RsyncP module
is causing this memory utilization?

I think that possible workarounds would be to switch to a different
backup transport other than rsync. Can anyone think of any other
solutions? Has any work been put into the RsyncP module to reduce
memoty utilization?

-Dave

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